Come on if this was Pelosi saying the same thing about Republicans, ya'll be screaming bloody murder.

Take your y'all and stick it someplace. Republicans and Conservatives took a lot worse than this for 8 years.

The usual suspects seem to be staying away because they probably know any objection will be met with a catalog of their Dubya assassination wet dreams.

Kyl probably should have kept his mouth shut due to the all-consuming Double Standard. That said, when the Chief Executive refers to a mass movement of the American people exercising their First Amendment right to peaceful assembly and to petition the government for redress of grievance with a sexual slur, Kyl's witticism is small potatoes.

Jon Kyl usually sets an example of honorable comportment. This joke would be funny at a bar, but is inappropriate coming from the Senate minority whip, just as it's inappropriate for Obama to joke about sending predator drones after the Jonas Brothers.

Call me crazy but in this hyperpartisan time when everyone is either a nazi racist teabagger or a marxist socialist moonbat, I don't like either side making jokes about murdering each other. I'd rather try to defuse rather then build up the rhetoric.

I suppose I would have preferred, at least, that the President had been left out of it. He's an exceptionally terrible President, but somehow even jokes that involve the President dying seem unbecoming.

I love how the nuts assert that Boehner would automatically be as much trouble as Pelosi.

OK, whatever. We were freaking about Bush's 400 billion dollar deficit, but it's hardly the kind of trouble the democrats got us in.

They have obviously and dramatically made things worse than if the GOP was running things, and perhaps it's not fashionable to admit that the GOP would be a huge damn improvement and probably even lengthen the lifetime of the Republic.

ancient ancient joke. And harmless. And to be repeated with a different cast when the Republicans are in power. I got my first "Then in 2008, Obama said, "Throw away your shovel, sit on your ass, light up a Camel; this is the promised land.Then in 2010, Obama takes your shovel, sells your camel, kicks your ass, and says there is no promised land." in email just a week ago. I remember this being passed around as a chain letter with Carter in it back in the day. If I was older, I'm sure I would remember previous presidents in it.

There is now a facebook group where they swapped out Christie for Obama as a favorite president and people are OUTRAGED that people are praying for the presidents death. While I find the Jonas brother joke funny I think I will create a facebook page tonight condemning the POTUS for calling private citizens pedophiles and threatening them with death by way of predator drones. Which is factually true, and factually ridiculous. Just like the uproar over this joke.

I love how the nuts assert that Boehner would automatically be as much trouble as Pelosi.

Boehner was one of Newt's Nuts, so we're right to be suspicious. But Boehner seems harmless enough. Here are the big accomplishments of his time as House Majority Leader:

8. [109th] H.RES.957 : Directing the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives to deliver the mace of the House of Representatives to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution for necessary repairs.Sponsor: Rep Boehner, John A. [OH-8] (introduced 7/27/2006) Cosponsors (None) Latest Major Action: 7/27/2006 Passed/agreed to in House. Status: On agreeing to the resolution Agreed to without objection.

13. [109th] H.R.4 : To provide economic security for all Americans, and for other purposes.Sponsor: Rep Boehner, John A. [OH-8] (introduced 7/28/2006) Cosponsors (4) Committees: House Ways and Means; House Education and the Workforce Latest Major Action: Became Public Law No: 109-280 [GPO: Text, PDF]

19. [109th] H.R.3784 : To temporarily extend the programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965, and for other purposes.Sponsor: Rep Boehner, John A. [OH-8] (introduced 9/15/2005) Cosponsors (5) Committees: House Education and the Workforce; Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Latest Major Action: Became Public Law No: 109-81 [GPO: Text, PDF]

23. [109th] H.R.4525 : To temporarily extend the programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965, and for other purposes.Sponsor: Rep Boehner, John A. [OH-8] (introduced 12/14/2005) Cosponsors (5) Committees: House Education and the Workforce Latest Major Action: Became Public Law No: 109-150 [GPO: Text, PDF]

24. [109th] H.R.4579 : To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, title XXVII of the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend by one year provisions requiring parity in the application of certain limits to mental health benefits.Sponsor: Rep Boehner, John A. [OH-8] (introduced 12/16/2005) Cosponsors (None) Committees: House Education and the Workforce; House Energy and Commerce; House Ways and Means Latest Major Action: Became Public Law No: 109-151 [GPO: Text, PDF]

fls, cool. Now lets see the cherry picked bills from Senator Obama. Yes, I know Boehner is in the house. Oh, and what non biased source determined those where "the big accomplishments of his time as House Majority Leader"?

I like the 4 choices in the poll. The scope of the questions probably allow for one good choice for most of us.

I chose "whatever to loosen up a crowd" because while the joke is lame and old and has been retold over the years in various forms and is thus ultimately not very funny or surprising, these crowds need to have their shell cracked with a joke in order to wake them up.

The joke would have been unacceptable if it had adapted the verbiage to include a bomb.